AltWeeklies Wire
Home to Roostnew
In a landmark decision, drillers are ordered to pay for damages to homeowners.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
05-06-2014 |
Environment
Tags: Aruba Petroleum, Oil Drilling
Ranch Tradition: Hanging Onnew
Texas cattle raisers aren’t giving up — but neither is the drought.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
03-13-2013 |
Environment
Locking Up Water Rightsnew
In Texas and around the world, corporations are increasingly competing for rights to our most precious liquid asset.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince and Eric Griffey |
02-08-2013 |
Environment
Tags: Corporate Water
Short on Electricitynew
Texas gets a clear warning of power problems by summer.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
01-23-2013 |
Energy
Buying Americannew
The U.S. marijuana business is so sophisticated that there’s even a college for pot growers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
01-23-2013 |
Drugs
Tags: Oaksterdam University
Flying Rats Live Another Daynew
My thoughts on the head flying rat are well known: He’s a thug who obstructed the investigation of a double homicide in 2000 and yet somehow is regarded with the same reverence normally reserved for non-murderous professional athletes who’ve enjoyed long careers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
01-16-2013 |
Sports
A Ban on Hypocrisynew
Liberals and conservatives should re-examine the basics of our public debates.
Fort Worth Weekly |
E.R. Bills |
01-16-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: newtown shooting
Turning Off the Spigotnew
Texas has changed its tune on turning kids into criminals, but Fort Worth may be lagging behind.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
01-16-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Juvenile Offenders
If the Newtown Massacre Doesn’t Change Us, No Shooting Ever Willnew
Whatever your politics, it should shame us all that it took 20 dead children to make us finally even consider the question: Should we reconsider stricter gun laws?
Fort Worth Weekly |
Andrew McLemore |
12-18-2012 |
Policy Issues
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sandnew
Protests in Texas delay the Keystone pipeline while opposition to it grows.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
10-17-2012 |
Environment
Sucking It Upnew
Gas drillers are competing with ranchers, farmers, and cities for increasingly scarce water supplies.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
09-07-2012 |
Energy
Poor David Wants Oswald Stone Returnednew
David Card, the irascible owner of Poor David’s Pub in Dallas, is bound and determined to get a family possession returned, and he’s turning to social media for help.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
08-24-2012 |
Crime & Justice
City Life Is a Good Life, Once Againnew
Americans are reversing the flow to the suburbs, and Fort Worth’s a part of it.
Fort Worth Weekly |
ANDREW MCLEMORE |
08-23-2012 |
Housing & Development
Stink on Pinknew
The Komen debacle washes up good and bad on local shores, and shows cracks in the Dallas charity.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink and Gayle Reaves |
02-09-2012 |
The War on Women
Texas Agency Decisions on Public Notices Draw Criticismnew
Public notices in local newspapers are a key element in keeping citizens informed about government goings-on. Giving people a heads-up on public hearings on everything from annexations to zoning, contract bids to new ordinances, the notices are all about transparency of government. One might think that government agencies would have some strict rules to abide by when posting public notices. But in Texas, the rules are all over the map.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
12-05-2011 |
Policy Issues
